How to Make a Holiday Star Sun Catcher

Steps:

1. Mark four 4-1/2-inch strips on a pane of glass with a ruler and marker.

• Wearing safety glasses, score the glass with a glasscutter along the marks.
• Hold the ruler in place where the line is to be cut.
• Pull the glasscutter across the glass, keeping it against the ruler to score a straight line.
• Break the glass along the scored lines with breaking pliers.

2. Cover one side of the first strip with contact paper. Cut wavy lines in the contact paper about 1/4-inch apart with a craft knife. Peel off every other strip of contact paper.

3. Cover one side of the second strip with a pattern of star stickers.

4. Cover one side of the third strip with a pattern of circle and hole reinforcement stickers. The fourth strip remains clear for the sun catcher design.

5. Apply a coat of the etching cream on the three patterned strips with an old paintbrush (wear safety glasses and rubber gloves for the etching process). Leave the cream on for 2-5 minutes and then rinse it off with water at the sink.

6. Remove the stickers and contact paper from the glass strips and wipe clean with paper towels.

7. Draw designs on the backs of the patterned glass strips with a rotary tool fitted with a small pointed tip. Wear safety glasses while working with the rotary tool.

8. Mark off 1-1/2-inch increments on both of the long sides of each strip with a ruler.

9. Hold the glasscutter in the top left corner and pull it down to the first mark on the bottom edge, making the hypotenuse of the 4-1/2" x 1-1/2" right triangle.

• Make a cut straight down from the first mark on to the first mark on the bottom.
• Then make a cut from first mark on the top to the second mark on the bottom.
• Continue all the way down the strip so you have the strip divided into right triangles.
• Score all the strips.

10. After all the strips are scored; separate the triangles with breaking pliers. These will form the star points.